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Some links to Theocritus and bucolic poetry:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theocritus
https://sjcheesebrough.substack.com/...-and-the-nymph
Enjoyed this nostalgic poem!
"CARELESSLY over the plain away,"."Courage" by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
https://allpoetry.com/poem/8489773-C...ang-von-Goethe
Incredible finds... Enjoyed so much :)
"Make for thyself a path!" Enjoyed :)
#14 - ""Do you like my new hat?" says your wife," - Amos Russel Wells; The Embarrassing Question... https://discoverpoetry.com/poems/relationship-poems/
:)
Well...
"English Teeth, English Teeth!"."Teeth" by Spike Milligan
https://allpoetry.com/poem/8503067-T...Spike-Milligan
Lol poem :) Enjoyed.
"Friend after friend departs:" - James Montgomery; Parted Friends... https://discoverpoetry.com/poems/friendship-poems/
Poem that deals with losses with sensibility. Curiously it has two numbers: #28 in the summary and #49. Enjoyed!
"Gone were but the Winter,"."Quiet Spring" by Christina Rossetti
https://discoverpoetry.com/poems/spring-poems/ #49.
"Here is heard an echo / Of the far sea, / Though far off it be." Enjoyed this uplifting poem :)
"Hail Poesie! thou Nymph reserv'd!" - Robert Burns; Poem On Pastoral Poetry... https://www.simple-poetry.com/poems/...ry-35430111565
Enjoyed the Scottish language of the poem which I understand overall.
"'I never can do it,' the little kite said,"How the Little Kite Learned to Fly
by Anonymous
https://discoverpoetry.com/poems/poems-about-courage/ #1
Sweet poem. Enjoyed :)
"Joseph! they say thou'st left the stage," - Thomas Hood; Ode To Joseph Grimaldi, Senior... https://www.simple-poetry.com/poems/...or-25154911776
Delightful tribute to an English clown who retired from the stage. The link didn't work for me, but found the poem here: https://knarf.english.upenn.edu/EtAlia/hood2.html
A poem by a poet with his name beginning with "K".
"I have to select a word for material."."Word" by Kihachi Ozaki
https://allpoetry.com/Kihachi-Ozaki
https://allpoetry.com/A-Word
Enjoyed this lightly abstract poem :)
"Light breaks where no sun shines;" - Dylan Thomas; Light Breaks Where No Sun Shines... https://allpoetry.com/Light-Breaks-Where-No-Sun-Shines
Dylan Thomas incredible weird images! Enjoyed this poem very much!
"My soul is sailing through the sea,"."Barnacles" by Sidney Lanier
https://discoverpoetry.com/poems/sid...ier/barnacles/
Our mortal baggage as barnacles... Enjoyed :)
"No stir in the air, no stir in the sea," - Robert Southey; The Inchcape Rock... https://discoverpoetry.com/poems/rob...inchcape-rock/
Wonderful Balad! Enjoyed!
"One autumn night, when the wind was high,"Popping Corn" by Anonymous
https://discoverpoetry.com/poems/ano.../popping-corn/
Delightful poem!... Enjoyed :)
"Poetry is the creation of prisms" - Joy Lenton; Creation of prisms... https://poetryjoy.com/2022/02/17/pri...ens-of-poetry/
Thanks for this interesting page. Differently from many other poets, Joy seems to have a rational approach to
poetry.
May is already gone, but I am delighted to find a legit "q" poem in English
"Queen of months, supremely fair,"."Ode To May"
by Peter Burn
https://discoverpoetry.com/poems/peter-burn/ode-to-may/
Enjoyed the legitimate 'q' poem. I love May too, even with 31-days it passes too soon :)
#5 "Run, run, thou tiny rill;" - Anonymous; The Little Rill... https://discoverpoetry.com/poems/poems-about-water/
:)
Liked the song of the little rill.
"Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness,"."To Autumn"
by John Keats
https://discoverpoetry.com/poems/john-keats/to-autumn/
Classic... "The red-breast whistles from a garden-croft; / And gathering swallows twitter in the skies." :)
"Thirst is angry with water. Hunger bitter
with bread." - Rumi; The Self We Share... https://msbunburyist.wordpress.com/2...one-must-read/
"The wine you offer takes me out of myself into/the self we share. Doing that is religion.":).
"Up from the South, at break of day,"."Sheridan's Ride"
by Thomas Buchanan Read
https://discoverpoetry.com/poems/leadership-poems/ #2
Winchester, né Rienzi... Enjoyed :)
#6 "Violet, violet, sparkling with dew," - Hannah Flagg Gould; The Wild Violet... https://discoverpoetry.com/poems/violet-poems/
Delightful Violet poem!
"When the tea is brought at five o'clock,"."Milk for the Cat" by Harold Monro
https://discoverpoetry.com/poems/cat-poems/ #8
Sweet, sweet poem... Loved it :)
Poet with a 'x' in their name:
"Death always takes the shape" - Xavier Villaurrutia; Nocturne: The Bedroom ... https://allpoetry.com/Nocturne:-The-Bedroom
Beautiful, intense poem, reminds me a bit of Dylan Thomas.
"Ye careless souls, be wise,"."Time is Precious"
by Peter Burn
https://discoverpoetry.com/poems/pet...e-is-precious/
Yes, and Neruda perhaps :)
"Awake from lethargy! / Behold, time swiftly flies, / Like lightning o'er the skies, / Into eternity." Almost like a psalm. Enjoyed :)
Poem by a poet with a 'z' in their name:
"While I don't see you, I don't shed a tear " - Adam Mickiewicz; Uncertainty... https://allpoetry.com/poem/8532077-U...dam-Mickiewicz
A grammar question: why do you US Americans usually write "in their name" instead of "in his name" or "in her name" depending of the gender?
Wonderful poem about emotional ambiguity(stealing the terms from ia).
Another poem by the same poet, I like him.
"A rich and lovely country wide unrolled,"."The Pilgrim" by Adam Mickiewicz
https://allpoetry.com/poem/8532061-T...dam-Mickiewicz
Vanity :) I just cut and paste using 'their' then I don't have to bother with the pronouns.
Enjoyed this complicated poem :)
"Beautiful, beautiful summer!" - Hannah Augusta Moore; June in Maine... https://www.excellence-in-literature.com/june-poems/
Lol!
Beautiful June poem. Enjoyed the site.
"A Cat Might Sit up in a Tree"."A Cat Might Sit up in a Tree
by Annette Wynney
https://discoverpoetry.com/poems/cat-poems/
So true... Enjoyed :)
"Dark lies the earth, and bright with worlds the sky:" - Emma Lazarus; Aspiration... https://www.simple-poetry.com/poems/...on-56384073350
Beautiful poem about frail humanity and the majestic skies.
Ooops! Some hole hear. Completing with "b" and "c" poems and adding the "e" poem.
"Brand new pupil came to school"."The Little New Pupil"
by Annette Wynne
https://discoverpoetry.com/poems/ann...tle-new-pupil/
"Chatter of birds two by two raises a night song joining a litany of running"."Prairie Waters by Night"
by Carl Sandburg
https://discoverpoetry.com/poems/car...ters-by-night/
Now the "e" poem so the next will be "f":
"EVEN in the bluest noonday of July,"."To Mrs. Will. H. Low"
From Underwoods (1913) by Robert Louis Stevenson
https://www.excellence-in-literature.com/july-poems/
Lol... I thought your 'a cat' poem was counting for a 'c' poem, but ok :)
"He's but a kitten gray." Delightful poem :)
"the willows drowse and sleep on the shoulders of the running water." A bit run on but enjoyed :)
I hadn't realized that Robert Louis Stevenson had had such a short life (1850–1894)... A rather grim poem but enjoyable :)
#36 "First the little boats that dream" - Ruby Archer; When the Tide Comes in... https://discoverpoetry.com/poems/beach-poems/
Oh, well! No problem!
Cute boat poem! A friendly tide comes in.
"Grown with grass and with tangled"."The Old Stone Quarry"
by Ellen P. Allerton
https://discoverpoetry.com/poems/poems-about-rocks/ #10
"There are human souls that seem to me
Like this unwrought stone—for all you see—
Is a shapeless quarry of what might be," Morose. Enjoyed :)
"Have I dreamed? or was it real," - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; Epimetheus Or The Poet's Afterthought... https://www.simple-poetry.com/poems/...ht-68890525541
A bit spectral. I'm rather in a sad mood today.
"If thou must love me, let it be for nought"."If You Must Love Me"
by Elisabeth Barrett Browning
https://new.allpoetry.com/Sonnet-XIV...u-Must-Love-Me
So sorry to hear... Sending you positive thoughts :)
"But love me for love's sake, that evermore / Thou may'st love on, through love's eternity." Enjoyed this poem very much :)
"June" sang the river, "June" sang the sky;" - Annette Wynne; "June" Sang the River... https://www.mamalisa.com/?t=es&p=6748
Thanks! :)
Cheerful June poem! Enjoyed!
"King Francis was a hearty king, and loved"."The Glove and the Lions" by Leigh Hunt
https://discoverpoetry.com/poems/kni...shining-armor/ #4
My goodness! Such vanity I've never had related... Enjoyed :)
"Life (priest and poet say) is but a dream;" - Walter Savage Landor; The Dragon-Fly... https://allpoetry.com/The-Dragon-Fly
Love this poem! But who says that insect souls are less eternal than ours?
"Mary thy violets are bright"."The Violets"
by Hannah Flagg Gould
https://discoverpoetry.com/poems/violet-poems/ #4
I don't agree with the poet either. IMHO: Eternal, yes, but human souls are the literal spirit children of our Heavenly Father in my faith and so may become exalted beings.
• https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/...y-die?lang=eng
• https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/...ation?lang=eng
"A simple leaf may brush a tear, / Or chase a cloud of care away— / May touch, with pleasant sounds, the ear, / Illumine night, and brighten day." :) Enjoyed.
"Native moments! when you come upon me - Ah you are here now!" - Walt Whitman; Native Moment... https://www.simple-poetry.com/poems/...nts-3216324066
Thanks for the links. I think this is the first time I read that a Christian Faith admits the idea of animals in heaven.:)
A strong and brave declaration of love by Walt Whitman! Enjoyed!
"Only in sleep I see their faces,"."Only in sleep" by Sara Teasdale
https://discoverpoetry.com/poems/poems-about-memories/
"I met their eyes and found them mild— / Do they, too, dream of me, I wonder, / And for them am I too a child?" Enjoyed :) Sara is becoming one of my favorites.
"Pearls of bated oxygen" - Kaysina Melody; I Refuse to Drown... https://new.allpoetry.com/poem/16240...efuse_to_drown